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Dame Joy Cowley is one of New Zealand´s most accomplished writers of books for the past three generations of children. She has sold more than 40 million copies of her books worldwide, in English, Maori and more than two dozen other languages.

Dame Joy has moved to a modern townhouse at the north end of Dunedin;s Kaikorai Valley after her husband Terry passed on in September 2022.

She has advanced macular degeneration that only allows her to recognise faces when they very very close to her face.

But despite her rapid failing eyesight she has found ways to adapt to keep writing. She is planning her next book and the books after that.

Her latest books are:

Blind Date: "It is all about vision beyond seeing". Published in 2022 by Copy Press Books, Nelson, New Zealand.

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A Lot of Silly: A Book of Rhymes and Nonsense, illustrated by David Barrow, 2024, published by Gecko Press.

Dame Joy is a patron and trustee of Storylines, the Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand (CLFNZ) and has written a book on writing for children, "Writing from

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Joy Cowley

Mrs. Wishy-Washy
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4.04 avg rating — 612 ratings — published 1990 — 20 editions

Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Farm
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3.88 avg rating — 535 ratings — published 2003 — 12 editions

Red-eyed Tree Frog (Scholastic Bookshelf)
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3.97 avg rating — 450 ratings — published 1999 — 19 editions

Chameleon, Chameleon
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4.15 avg rating — 384 ratings — 10 editions

Snake and Lizard
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3.96 avg rating — 361 ratings — 17 editions

Gracias the Thanksgiving Turkey
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3.82 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 1996 — 15 editions

Dunger

4.19 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions

The Silent One

3.84 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 1980 — 11 editions

Song of the River
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3.93 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions

Chicken Feathers
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3.68 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions

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I was born in Levin, New Zealand, 7 August 1936, the eldest daughter of Peter Summers (Scottish/Irish) and Cassia Gedge (mainly Swedish/Danish). I was the eldest of 5 children, four girls and a boy, and because both parents suffered chronic ill health, we were raised on a sickness benefit. This meant that we were financially poor but very rich in family experience.

In the early years at school, I was a slow and struggling student and I could have added to the country's illiteracy statistics. The experience of trying to learn to read with a meaningless system of fragmented language, has made me a passionate advocate for the beginner reader, the slow reader, the reader who has English as a second language. I believe that learning to read must be a pleasurable and meaningful exercise. If it isn't, then we teach children to read and to hate reading at the same time.

When I discovered that reading accessed story, I forgot that I "couldn't read" and delighted in the adventures that could be found in books. By the age of 11, I was a book addict who haunted the local lib